Fishing-tackle.



A. VIBES & R. D. SCOTT.

FISHING TACKLE. APPLICATION FILED JAN.12, 1914.

1,1 10,246.; Patented Se t. 3, 1914.

"UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. Y

ART UR VIERS AND ROBERT 15. soon, or RED LODGE, MONTANA. I

FISHING- TACKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed January 12, 1914. Serial No. 811,722.

. -1 atented Sept. 8, 1914.

To all whom it may concern: I

Beit known that We, ARTHUR Visas and Roman D. Scorr, citizens of the United States, residing at Red Lodge, in the county of Carbon and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fishing-Tackle, of which the fol- --lowing a specification.

The present invention relates to improvenrents infishing tackle, the object in view being to provide a hook member formed from a single P1606 of w1re bent back upon itself and'fiattened at its bent portion to form an integral piercing shank upon which the bait is adaptedvto be impaled, the free terminals of the barbed points.

Another object of the invention is to pro-. vide a hook connecting element for connecting the hook member aforesaid to the line, which elementis adapted to cooperate with said hook member by frictionally engaging the, same to hold it in alinement with the hook connecting element.

wire forming spaced With the above and other objects in view,

this invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts all as hereinafter more fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- I I Figure. l is a View in elevation of a hook member constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a slightly modified form of hook member connected by' means of the,

' re erence characters.

While it has beenproposed heretofore to employ a separate hook member which com prises a piercing shankpdifliculty is'expericncedin actual use of the fishing tackle in disconnecting the hok member from the connecting element which connects the same to the fishing line, when the hook member has been swallowed by a fish caught thereupon. In order to accomplish the separat ingl function just menti0ned,fli t has been necessary to insert the finger into the fishs mouth in order to disconnectthe connecting element from the hook member, and this is disadvantageous where such action would result in injury to the fish" or where the piercing shank has descended into the throat element diflicult.

" i It, therefore has been an object of'iny intention to arrange a particular formed hook member so as to coiiperate with a hook connecting element that may be readily disen gaged from the hook element by relative increment of these parts toward each other. This will become evident as this description proceeds, and referring to the drawing, the

numeral 1 designates a hook member whichv comprises a single plece of wire bent back upon itself and havingits terminals bent upwardly so as to form the spaced barbed points 2, 2. The upper portion of the wire is then mashed or flattened so as to form the integral or brazed sharpened piercing shank 3, through which an opening 4 extends for connecting the hook member to the line as will nowbe described.

In Fig.4 is shown a hook connecting eleof the same making access to the connecting ment'5 having an eye 6 at one end through which is looped the leader? or the line as the case may be and the other end of said member is bent back to form a hook portion 8, which hook portion is bent near the upper end until it frictionally. contacts with the adjacent shank at the point indicated by the numeral 9. formation in this connecting element as thus described forms practically a "closed hook and when the piercing shank 3 of the hook member 1 is inserted in the hook 8, acci- It will be" obvious that thedental disengagement of the same from the hook connecting element is prevented. In addition to preventing this disengagement,

the bending of the hook 8 so as to'friction- I ally contact with the shank of the hook connecting element is designed to bind the upper point-ed extremity of the shank 3 between the terminal and the body. portion of the connecting member 5 thereby holding the hook member in alinement with 1 the hook connecting element as is most clearly shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing.

The formation of the hook member from a single piece of Wire bent back upon itself is advantageous asthe flattening of the shank simultaneously forms a piercing member which enables the impalement of the bait upon the'hook without damagingsaid bait or weakening the same Where minnows are employed es bait. It fiirthermore enables the extraction of'the hook from a fish when I caught upon thebarbed terminals 2, 2' without considerable injury to the fish and the connecting member 5 as described enables the disengagement;of the hook member in an advantageous manner; hereinbefore mentioned. Not only does the formation of the hook from the single pieceof-wire become 10' advantageous for the foregoing reason but enables a double-hook to be formed, the

spaced barbed terminals preventing the baitfrom turning around ontlie shank as is very often the czfse where a single hook is used.

In Fig. 2 the hook meifnber 1 is formed similarly to that described for-the referred embodiment-with the addition 0 ,a third book 2" which is; flattened into a piercing shank 3 thereby forming a triple barbed esi'red prior to the" pointed member. As 'd flattening of the shank'3a ring member 10 is inserted over the shank and ,down' upon the lower portion of the' s ameyfor the pur- -pose of holding the branching portions constituting a'piercing element, and con-' 'nectmg means intermediate the shank and the line comprising a hook portion bent back upon its-main portion to form ayielding' clamp, said shank being clamped'by the hook'porti'on to frictionally hold the hook member'in alinement with the connecting means.

" In testimony whereof we -afiix'our signa tures 1n presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR VIERS; ROBERT n-sooTT. Witnesses! 

